290 people run up Empire State Building

Germany's Thomas Dold, 22, won the Empire State Building Run-up on Tuesday for the second year in a row.

Suzy Walsham, 33, of Singapore, won the women's competition.

A total of 290 runners from around the world, ranging in age from 18 to 77, competed in the 30th annual race up the famed skyscraper.

Dold's winning time of 10 minutes, 25 seconds was just over his 2006 time of 10 minutes, 19 seconds.

Another German, 23-year-old Jahn Mattias, came in second with a time of 10 minutes, 56 seconds.

Walsham won the women's competition with a time of 13 minutes, 12 seconds, narrowly beating American Cindy Moll-Harris, 38, of Indianapolis, who was second among the women at 13 minutes, 24 seconds.

The runners raced up 86 floors, or 1,576 steps, from the building's Art Deco lobby.

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